It was brought to my attention by a member of the Round Table that while it is all well and good for me to simply insist that the Bosena Accords was not involved or complacent in the incident we must take every action to safeguard our position in all of this by doing all we can to ensure that Greater New Eden believes us.
Thankfully, we have an alibi.
Assuming these events take place at around the time of the Kyonoke Plague outbreak, then I can say that our forces were in fact involved in plague response at the time. However, it might not be as you expect. Rather than interacting directly with any infected (as some rogue members of the warclone community and the State Peacekeepers did in Myrskaa City) the bulk of our forces had instead diverted from our operations in Molden Heath to assist in humanitarian and peacekeeping missions planetside in Muttokon.
These operations included administering first aid, distributing supplies to civilians, assisting displaced residents, monitoring for signs of further outbreak, and upholding the rule of law on the planet below following the destruction of the space elevator to the quarantine area in low-orbit. Operations began shortly after news of Kyonoke Plague was announced and ended after the quarantine was lifted. Though we had petitioned several times to be granted access to the orbital facility to distribute aid to the infected that request was never granted by the Minmatar Republic or any other law enforcement agency.
Both the Ushra’Khan, I-RED, and other agencies operating in the area following the Muttokon outbreak will corroborate our story and testify that the entire affair was a resounding success without any major incident. My intention in sharing this information is twofold.
One, it is my hope that being upfront about this information the capsuleer community is far more inclined to believe us when I say that we had nothing to do with this incident and we want to do all that we can to find those responsible.
Two, every member of the Round Table (our senior council and executive cabinet in the Bosena Accords) was present for the Muttokon relief effort, meaning I can say with absolute certainty that no one within our senior leadership was involved with this possible masacre. This is not insignificant, as when I first heard of this event I was mortified that something like this may have taken place right under our noses. It is possible, given the nature of our membership process, that the warclones (if they are indeed warclones) who carried this out are members of the Accords but they certainly would not be involved in our leadership or acting in any way on our behalf.
Rest assured if any of the animals who did this are found to be inside the Accords, they will be punished severely before being turned over to CONCORD for questioning.